Post-tsunami Sri Lanka - Five years on

[Lars77]

Run time: 08:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1_n1CWmlw   Posted on YouTube: January 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 02, 2010 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 768

 
It was a giant wave bowling in at 200 kilometres per hour destroying everything in its path. The tsunami of the 26th December 2004 killed more than 230,000 people.

After the disaster, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 11-billion euros in aid flowed into NGO coffers.

In Sri Lanka, the country worst affected after Indonesia, the tsunami also made more than half a million people homeless.

[midnight]

1. It is a blessing that these people did not give up.....

[jwirr]

2. Let us hope that we can learn from these people - Katrina is still setting

there almost as it was. And another lesson is that war never helps in the rebuilding of a nation.

[proud patriot]

3. What an inspiration

I'm really glad I watched that .